Hi, this is Gary with MacMost.com.
On today's episode let's take a quick look at the new Photos app.
The new photos app is brand new in Mac OS 10.10.3 which was released today.
It replaces iPhoto and matches up now with the Photos app in iOS.
There is a ton of new features so let's just take a quick look at it.
So once you've moved to the new Photos app you will notice that it looks a lot like the
Photos app in iOS 8.
You've got three main levels here to view all of your photos and you've got it chronologically
here broken up by years and it shows you locations within that year as well.
You can use these arrows here to move down into the Collections view which basically
breaks it down into small, you can call them events I guess, inside of the year.
So it breaks it down into a collection of photos that maybe matches a certain set of
dates and an area.
Then you can go further into that like looking at the individual photos here.
They come a little clearer and they break down to specific dates here.
So you've got those three levels to look at.
In all those levels you can do somethings.
Like, for instance, you can click and hold and you will be able to see the photos just
by swiping back and forth.
If I would release it would go directly to the photo.
In addition you can double click on the locations there and it gives you a map view and then
you can dig down from there into a picture view that restricts you to those photos.
You can always use this back arrow to go back different levels.
So you have lots of different ways to flip through all your photos and just dig down
into them.
Now let's go and take a look at an actual photo.
So we will dig down here into third level down and we will look at an individual photo
to edit.
So once we see this one here, we can see the individual photo, we can zoom in on it here.
We can go to a view here which shows us all the photos in that area, or event in this
case, if we wanted to have that and be able to quickly move between them.
We also have the ability to do things like Favorite it, get information about it right
here like the camera, it would have location information if available for this photo.
You can also share it to an album or create all sorts of different things which we will
look at in a second.
Here is the actual share button which allows you to not only do the standard stuff like
email it or send it to Facebook but you can also create an iCloud photo sharing album
which is something you can share with other people.
You can also, of course, edit.
The edit controls are very similar to iOS.
You've got an enhance button, rotate here, you've got crop which also allows you to adjust
the angle there.
You've got filters to apply and a full set of different adjustments that you can get
into.
So there way too much to go into in one video.
I'll probably be looking at some of the specific features here later on in individual tutorials.
But you've got most of the functionality of iPhoto from before.
You've got Faces, you've got Places, you've got the ability to share things not only to
say Facebook or something like that but you can create a new iCloud Photo Sharing area
where you can share an album with other people and even have them available by the web.
So you can use Albums here to organize your photos like you want if you would rather not
look at them in chronological order here.
Of course you can just use both.
You can order print products.
All sorts of things that you can do like that.
So there is just a ton of functionality and it is very different than iPhoto.
So you've got to kind of not look at this as the next version of iPhoto at all but look
at this as a completely new app with a simplified interface and the huge new feature of having
your photos available across all of your devices.
So having all your photos shared across all your devices and in iCloud means a lot of
different things.
It means you will never again have all your photos on your iMac on your desk and not being
able to access them from your sofa on your MacBook or not be able to see them on your
iPad or iPhone.
Everything just syncs all the way across.
As a matter of fact it syncs over the internet pretty instantly.
I'm going to take a photo right now with my iPhone and what will happen is it will sync
up to iCloud and then it will sync over to the photos app here on my Mac.
So it will just take about a minute here.
Okay there it appears, the photo I just took of my desk.
So I took that on my iPhone.
I didn't do any syncing or anything like that.
It just connected over the networks to save this photo to iCloud and then save it here
so that I can see all my photos everywhere.
There is a first look at the new Photos app.
I will be digging deeper into it, like I said, in upcoming videos, into each individual features
so we can get to know it together.